11 October 2007 Edition

In the Northern Assembly this week, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Children and Young People, Sue Ramsey said that the border between the North and South of Ireland poses a considerable challenge in the management of those who pose a risk to children and young people or who are sex offenders. Free article

Next weekend, 19-21 October in Howth, County Dublin republicans/Irish language activists and Gaelgeoirí from all over Ireland shall gather to celebrate and discuss the success of the Irish language renaissance and the reconquest of natural resources. Free article

SPANISH Judge Baltasar Garzón is back to his normal self. This you may remember is the man possessed of the peculiar notion that all defenders of the Basque right to self-determination should be considered 'terrorists'. Free article

IT WAS HARD to figure out which was the worse response to the carefully written article by Ulster Bank Chairperson Alan Gillespie on promoting all-island economic growth published in The Irish Times last week. Free article

Speaking in the Dáil this week on a Private Members' motion expressing sympathy to the families of deceased Bray fire fighters Brian Murray and Mark O'Shaughnessy, North Kerry TD Martin Ferris called for the creation of a Fire Authority to oversee a programme of integrated training and standards across the 26 Counties. Free article

October 13 2007 marks the formal winding up of the Irish Political Prisoners Children's Holiday (IPPCH) programme, after 26 years in operation. The Programme was founded in 1981 to alleviate the suffering of those children who had been affected by the political imprisonment of a family member. Free article

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